Giving cash directly to people in extreme poverty has been proven effective again and again, by study after study. This fetishization of self-reliance, however, is only one part of why people chafe at giving money directly to those in extreme poverty. In the study “Cash Transfers and Temptation Goods

With so many headphones on the market, finding the right pair can be a tedious experience. Luckily, Yahoo Finance has you covered, whether you’re shopping for the audiophile in your life, the ultimate road warrior, or that special someone seeking a solid pair of headphones to jam to. Here are five

Gaming a Yankee Swap (a.k.a. White Elephant gift exchange) is not easy to do, unless you employ some Ocean’s Eleven tactics. Here’s how it works: Everybody brings a wrapped gift under a certain price and draws a number to determine their order in the gift picking lineup. The first person opens a gift

On Friday, we learned the US economy added 178,000 jobs in November and the unemployment rate fell to 4.6%, while over 95 million Americans were not in the labor force. One person can say the unemployment rate is 4.6%. Another person can look at the same report and say the unemployment rate is 40.3%

San Francisco is notorious for stratospheric real estate prices. Condos at The San Francisco Shipyard, which broke ground in 2006, start around $500,000 for a one-bedroom. Nestled in Hunter’s Point, a neighborhood on the southeast edge of San Francisco along the water, The San Francisco Shipyard is

Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, the CEO of $12 billion Pershing Square Capital Management, saw his investments in Fannie Mae (FNMA) and Freddie Mac (FMCC) jump by more than $200 million in value this week. Shares of the mortgage giants have been on an absolute tear since Donald J. Trump won the presidential

From 2011 to 2013, the city of Indianapolis and the state of Indiana gave Carrier and an affiliated company $1.7 million in grants and tax incentives, as an inducement to keep two manufacturing plants in the state and bring additional work in. Earlier this year, Carrier said it would move those factories

The stock market in 2017 will be all about corporate taxes. The election of Donald Trump to the White House has turned the focus of strategists across Wall Street to the impacts of an expected corporate tax cut. Trump pledged that he would bring the corporate tax rate down to 15% from its current 39%

Currently the company is fighting attempts in California to classify the streaming service as a traditional “utility,” which would slap its customers with a 9.4% tax—potentially driving some away. Since the municipal government of Pasadena decided to look into implementing a tax on internet streaming

Corporate America’s biggest worry about incoming President Donald Trump is that he’ll ignite trade wars with China, Mexico and other big exporters. “There aren’t going to be trade wars,” Ross told Yahoo Finance the day after the election. On the campaign trail, Trump talked tough about slapping quotas

In its unending quest to ensure your eyeballs never stray too far from its products, Facebook (FB) has launched a new Instant Games platform for Messenger. Available with the latest version of Messenger for iOS and Android, which began rolling out Tuesday in 30 countries, Instant Games includes classics

On Tuesday, two data points reinforced the strength of the consumer, with third quarter personal consumption revised higher while November’s consumer confidence reading from The Conference Board rose to the highest level in nine years. In the third quarter, personal consumption rose 2.8%, better than

Giving Tuesday, the anti-Black Friday day for charitable donations, comes on the heels of Cyber Monday. If you’ve never heard of it before, that’s because it is only a few years old, founded in 2012 by the 92nd Street Y and the UN Foundation in response to post-Thanksgiving materialism—and the fact

A fund that trades under the ticker CUBA is seeing a remarkable spike after Fidel Castro’s death last week. The Herzfeld Caribbean Basin Fund, Inc. (CUBA) was the first fund to invest specifically in companies exposed to and operating in the Caribbean region, including Cuba, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Dominican

Donald Trump has pulled off a public relations coup by persuading Carrier, the air conditioning company, to reverse plans to offshore hundreds of jobs from an Indiana factory to Mexico. Trump has reportedly struck a deal with Carrier to keep half of the 1,400 jobs it planned to outsource in Indiana,

Donald Trump’s campaign committee is still sending solicitations to supporters, asking them to donate money. One donation page on Trump’s web site states that contributions up to $2,700—the legal maximum for a candidate’s campaign committee, per cycle—will go toward paying down debt accumulated during

Or, what about the efficiency in searching on Google for a question about President-elect Donald Trump’s various businesses rather than heading to the library and sifting through an encyclopedia or newspaper archive to find the answer. Last month, Fed vice chairman Stanley Fischer said there has been